I like Waitrose, but I do not love Waitrose! The disabled…read moreparking is convoluted to access. Not on regular route and have to want something special to go there.

A good shop with petrol pump facilities, and easily located, Waitrose also has excellent parking,…read moreand the place is always so clean. Waitrose's slogan is good food, honestly priced, and for me, this was like when Prince Charles said that food was too cheap. Don't get me wrong, it's not that they stock expensive food at expensive prices, I've never yet seen Beluga Cavier at £10 a pound, but it's that they stock products that I can get at other super-markets for cheaper, especially with the age of internet shopping on us. The staff are always very helpful though, and the shop has a very relaxed atmosphere about it for a super-market, and you don't feel stressed to the point you just want to charge around the store and get out. Because of it's size, Waitrose offers an excellent range of food, drink, media, and much more, and they're always fully stocked, even with their special offers and promotions.

Great Turkish supermarket. Loads of fresh veg - even if I don't know what it all is... Great for…read moreChili, Tomatoes etc. Fresh bread baked, butchery and many other interesting things. Also, free parking at the back.

Yes the fruit and veg is great. However the staff are so rude. Don't ever expect a smile a please…read moreor a thank you. They have no idea of customer service you are banned from taking your own bags ( I assume they think we're all shop lifters, nice! ) so you have no choice but to pay the 5p charge for bags...the whole point of bringing in the charge was to encourage people to take their own bags. I've shopped at TFC over a number of years but today will be the last time for me it's just not a nice place to shop sadly.

It might be because I'm a northerner that I found the staff member who served me in here to be…read moresomewhat less than friendly. It was a beautiful sunny day, and I had to visit a client down the road so admittedly I just wanted some change for the parking machine. I wandered around for a bit wondering what to by that would give me a good return on the 'change for a tenner' front and opted for some generic organic smoothie thing. When I asked the till lady for my change in pound coins she sighed, gave me a right nasty look and reluctantly counted out the change, one coin at a time. Even though I was super polite and friendly and cheery and all 'I'm sorry to be a pain, thank you very much please thank you'. Ah well. Other than that, the shop was well stocked, the car park offered up to 2 hours free parking (not enough for me) for customers, and it was bright and nice enough.

i find the staff are friendly and helpful, getting you items you have forgotton when you are…read morequeuing at checkouts, and they do their best to open up a new checkout if your queue is quite long too. a wide range of prducts on offer, with many surpirsing finds that are good value too. great deals, plenty of room to get around the store, well laid out and the pharmacy is an added bonus.

I've recently started using this store for my weekly shop. Shame Waitrose no longer offers free…read morecoffee here, as being a coffee lover this was what made me move away from Sainsbury's in the first place ;-( I suppose like most things free, people will take advantage, but it was good while it lasted. The staff here provide excellent service, that's when you can find one who's not already serving.

This was my local Waitrose for years and it's still the best Waitrose I've ever been too. I like…read morethe layout of the shop and it's a good size with almost everything I want. Another brilliant thing about this Waitrose is its proximity to a really good Sainsburys and M&S food so you can cover all bases. The staff are friendly and helpful and I still see the same faces after years. The car park is outdoors which suits me down to the ground... nothing worse than fitting into the tiniest underground/multi-storey car park and then realising you'll have tonnes of groceries on your return and that won't be able to fully open doors because there's two inches between your car and the wall. Waitrose also support local charities and local self funded groups which is a nice touch.

Excellent minimart. Good selection at good prices. Nearly always open. The usual small supermarket…read morestuff but with freshly baked bread. Has good special offers. Easy parking. Definitely worth going to rather than big queues in bigger shops.

This is a great general store with a good layout and things are easy to find. It is always easy to…read morepop into a local costcutter and grab things that you need in an emergency (whether it is guests arriving unexpectedly or having run out of milk in the middle of the night). The staff are helpful and can find you whatever you are looking for. The added advantage of having this costcutter close by is that it is open early and closes late so getting things is quite easy. The shop although busy most of the time, the service is good and the queues always go down quickly!

The new and improved store is now open. The new cafe is upstairs and is lovely, much quieter then…read morethe old one that was adjacent to the store the staff are friendly and helpful. The main store has just added self service checkouts these are rubbish (even worse than tesco) it really did not want me to have a cauliflower and the lad in charge of them did not know now they worked and wandered off regularly. The clothes department is now huge and good for casual and work clothes but lacks the party going out range that tesco provides. the rest of the store is much the same as before but the freezer department is tiny. Also the staff are a bit mean when I walked into a trolley the other day one of saw and laughed at me.

The new and improved store is here! The clothing section is great, wide isles, yards of clohtes and…read morefrom here it goes downhill. The food isles are narrower now, so making peak time impossible, espcially if people are loading shelves. Also their stock choice is less now as well. Which is a shame. There is an emphasise on using self checkout now, which should be quicker, however if buying alcohol or age related products the staff dont come to help, they are too busy packing other peoples shopping or talking amongst themselves to help. You have to approach them and get the rolling eyes look. I go in most days and sadly the customer care has gone down a lot.

Asda is one of the major supermarkets in Colchester, mainly competing with Tesco in Highwoods and…read morethe Hythe. As mentioned by previous reviewers, a fun feature of the store is the travelators, which allow you take a trolley up to the clothing department. Even I, as mature as I clearly am, cannot resist the urge to walk the wrong way down these flat walkways, pretending to be Michael Jackson (before he went weird, of course!). The store itself offers most of the usual features, such as food, a bakery, fishmongers and entertainment. In all, a decent store with cheap prices on everyday goods.

Loads of free parking and very reasonable prices in store. Staff are pretty helpful but normally…read moreflying around filling baskets. While most of the food is good you have to be a bit picky as some of the Adsa items I have purchased have not been of a great standard.